Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY)
Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist
GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the
Southwest for "Getting the News," The Georgia Review, Summer 2009
Notable Essay of the Year Citation in Best American Essays 2010 for
"Getting the News" Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the
Guerilla Girls On Tour and by WILLA: Women in Literary Arts and
Letters An extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature
of time inside illness, Called Back is both a narrative and
non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the
standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery,
chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected
vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the
typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of
living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the
United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to
discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude,
eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning
away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley,
Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, Called Back
relies on these artists' queer aesthetics to tease the author back
to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs "see"
inside breast cancer's paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the
experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate? The first
chapter paves the way for the book's central emphases: a meditation
on the nature of "news" and the new, on noticing, on
messages-including those that the body itself relies upon in the
assumption of disease-and the interpretive methods we bring to them
in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and
act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and
how we treat it, Cappello argues. Working at the borders of memoir,
literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, Called Back aims to
displace tonal and affective norms- infantilizing or moralizing,
redemptive, sentimental or cute-with reverie, rage, passionate
intensity, intelligence, and humor.
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